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BPL: The Internet's Fool's Gold
Joe Barr writes "One of the more fascinating tidbits of information I came across while researching this story on NewsForge about BPL, the fatally flawed wannabe-broadband-provider technology, was that at the very same time the FCC was downplaying the threat of the interference BPL creates, the FCC's very own test results were showing just the opposite."
Shocking. Simply shocking.
Try to hack my 31337 firewall!
What happens if we combine BPL with power over ethernet? Or is that like crossing the streams...
Just try driving your Lexus through that field you see the horse grazing in. If you don't completely destroy the suspension in the process, you'll probably still bend an axle on a chuchkhole the horse has no problems navigating.
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Oh, and consider the full area of a horse field compared to the itty bitty teeny little slice of processed asphalt bisecting it - you get the tiny piece, the horse gets the remainder.
Your analogy isn't exactly waterproof.
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No, I've been too busy making artificial diamonds so that I could connect them to my new GPU to squeeze out that extra percentage of performance, so that I could calculate just how many LoC per-second I could transfer using BPL.
Mmm, broadband so good you can taste it! Seems to me this would work for downloads, but uploads would have to go through the sewers.
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It is still used in some legacy industrial applications, such as Jacquard Looms and waterwheel-powered flour mills.
Developed at Bell Labs, it has the distinction of being the language used to program the first TOIP (Telegraph Over IP) app, which, as everyone knows, is when Samuel F.B. Morse sent the message "WTF has God wrought? OMFG ROFL!".
Note that BPL itself was preceded by APL (Ancient Programming Language), which was used during the heyday of the Roman Empire, about 2000 years ago.
That language is easily recognizable because it doesn't resemble any known "living" computer language (including the heiroglyphics of its character set).
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There was a dilbert cartoon a little while ago where the Pointy Haird Boss asked Dilbert to research broadband over sewage, basically on the same principle.
meh